Biblio | Beyond Intractability

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

- Helen Keller

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

- Nelson Mandela

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

- Malcolm X

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

- John F. Kennedy

World peace is us... We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.

- Kathleen Vande Kieft

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.

- Kenneth Boulding

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

- Dorothy Thompson

The only final good is the quality of human life.

- Kenneth Boulding

Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.

- Dhammapada

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.

- Kenneth Boulding

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.